Jolt Country

Huhuhuhuhh. "Bone".

THREE AND A QUARTER (***1/4) STARS.

No, seriously, it's a dark voyage into the poverty and meth-infested world of the Ozark mountains of southern Missouri, in which a sturdy young girl mature beyond twice her years sets out to find her deadbeat father in order to save the house where she is the ersatz single parent to her two siblings and crazy mother.

Seeing all the scuzbucket meth-head trash she has to deal with, one would expect that the film is 100 straight minutes of Jennifer Lawrence, outrageously gorgeous especially when set against such a menacing backdrop, just getting raped continuously. Thankfully (if not quite believably) this doesn't happen, and we're left with a well-done "quest" movie in a unique, almost otherworldly environment.

pinback wrote: southern Missouri....la unique, almost otherworldly environment.

You wanna come visit sometime?

I seem to remember you got a mighty purty mouth. At least compared to all the fucking meth heads.

Bruce